武
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 止 (“stop”) + 戈 (“spear”)
From the characters 戈 and 止. The character 戈 means spear. The character 止 means “to stop” in some times; thus, "武" is sometimes believed to denote “to stop a weapon” or “to stop violence” (止戈为武). This definition is mentioned in the Chinese history book Spring and Autumn Annals, written in 481 BC and the 1985 film No Retreat, No Surrender. But, due to it also containing the meaning “foot” in Oracle script, according to the Japanese dictionary Kanjigen (漢字源), another point is that the character 武 may therefore have originally referred to “a man on foot with a spear”.
Han character[edit]
武 (radical 77 止+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一心卜中一 (MPYLM), four-corner 13140)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 575, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16273
- Dae Jaweon: page 965, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1439, character 5
- Unihan data for U+6B66
Cantonese[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
武 (Yale mou5)
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
Readings[edit]
- Goon: む (mu)
- Kan’on: ぶ (bu)
- Kun: たけ.し (武し, take.shi)
- Nanori: う (u), お (o), たけし (takeshi), たけん (taken), ん (n)
Compounds[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
武 (hiragana たけし, romaji Takeshi)
- A male given name
Synonyms[edit]
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
武 (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)
Mandarin[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
武 (Pinyin wǔ (wu3), Wade-Giles wu3)
Compounds[edit]
Middle Chinese[edit]
Han character[edit]
武 (*miǒ)
Min Nan[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
武 (POJ bú)
Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
- Han ideogrammic compounds
- Han characters
- Japanese kanji
- Grade 5 kanji
- Japanese kanji read as む
- Japanese kanji read as ぶ
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese terms spelled with 武
- Japanese male given names
- Korean hanja
- ko:Martial arts
- Vietnamese Han tu
